Ok guys lets face it.

[dirty_bass]

I think where once a good release was between 5 and 10 thousand
you are doing very very well now days if you hit 1500

bare in mind - there are 10 times more producers than 7 years ago.

i will bet dollars to donuts the exact numbers of sales havent changed.

Overall sales have gone down.
OVERALL sales, thats everything, not sales of individual sales of labels.
There aren`t really that many more labels, as loads have disapeared.
The market isn`t that overfilled except in schranze.

And no, it`s not just down to mp3

There are a few other factors. But the Ipod age is the main factor.

Wake up and smell the copy.

Sales in music overall have gone down.
People just want something for nothing.

There is also the fact that DJing simply isn`t as popular as it was.
People now realise that after a few years, they are not gonna be the next tiesto or cox, and they (the bandwagon jumpers) have moved on to some other pipe dream of fame (big brother or something equally trite)

Is there a solution?

I don`t know. I do know that the current system we all use is pretty crap.
The artists get rinsed, returns can give you false sales figures, yadayadayada

We have a method of collective communication now.

And rather than making every excuse under the sun, to deny the facts. We should be sorting it out.